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Fed vs Novak tmr morning fellas.

10 AM EST

If you don't have tennis channel it will be on espn3.

If you have neither you can always stream
 

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At this point in his career, Fed goes as his serve goes. He couldn't hit a 2nd serve to save his life against Seppi. Against Nole today, his serve bailed him out time and time again. 11 Aces and no double faults until the last game, against the best returner in the world? 7 break points and Djokovic only is able to return a couple of them? No breaks allowed?

Fed earned this one. I just hope he can serve like this at Wimbledon and/or the US Open. If he serves like he did at the Aussie, he is about the tenth best player in the World. If he serves like he did today, he is unstoppable.
 

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In the meantime Nadal avoided Dubai to play in some weak 250 clay tournament in Argentina lol.

With Indian Wells & Miami up as the next 2 tournaments, I can't see Rafa doing well at either tourney since he decided to play 2 clay court tourneys leading up to those tourneys instead of playing on hard courts.

His logic makes zero sense
 

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In the meantime Nadal avoided Dubai to play in some weak 250 clay tournament in Argentina lol.

With Indian Wells & Miami up as the next 2 tournaments, I can't see Rafa doing well at either tourney since he decided to play 2 clay court tourneys leading up to those tourneys instead of playing on hard courts.

His logic makes zero sense

He wouldn't have played Dubai either way. It's worse than that. He would have played Acapulco, which is also a hard-court 500 and is right between Rio and Indian Wells. The finals there will be Nishikori vs. Ferrer, the top two seeds. Obviously, both good players, but it's a pretty weak field anytime there is a 500 where the #8 seed is ranked #41(!) in the world. It was the perfect chance for him to get 500 points, and he didn't even try.

His choice to play Argentina makes perfect sense. He knows he can't compete in hard court events in his current form, even with the weak fields. He is prepping for clay, hoping and praying that he can find a way to avoid RG loss #2.

And the scary thing is that he isn't even dominating on clay. He's behind in the first-set breaker to Berlocq. I assume he will find a way to win, but if not, that is back to back losses in the semis of clay-court 250s. This would have been unthinkable two years ago.
 

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The thing about Nadal's ground and pound type style is that it also takes it toll on himself. He wont have the 15+ year career that guys like Agasse, Connors and others had because his body has way more mileage on it.
 

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He wouldn't have played Dubai either way. It's worse than that. He would have played Acapulco, which is also a hard-court 500 and is right between Rio and Indian Wells. The finals there will be Nishikori vs. Ferrer, the top two seeds. Obviously, both good players, but it's a pretty weak field anytime there is a 500 where the #8 seed is ranked #41(!) in the world. It was the perfect chance for him to get 500 points, and he didn't even try.

His choice to play Argentina makes perfect sense. He knows he can't compete in hard court events in his current form, even with the weak fields. He is prepping for clay, hoping and praying that he can find a way to avoid RG loss #2.

And the scary thing is that he isn't even dominating on clay. He's behind in the first-set breaker to Berlocq. I assume he will find a way to win, but if not, that is back to back losses in the semis of clay-court 250s. This would have been unthinkable two years ago.

I see your point but would you not want to play a few hard court tourneys before the biggest hard court tournaments of the year (excluding obviously AO & USO) before we get to Cincy & Toronto during the US Open series?
 

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The thing about Nadal's ground and pound type style is that it also takes it toll on himself. He wont have the 15+ year career that guys like Agasse, Connors and others had because his body has way more mileage on it.
Nadal is built like a brick shithouse compred to those guys.

Plus, he has taken off about a year in the past 36 months, and has had a bunch of other 4+ month absences besides that. That'll extend his contention time a little. But I think he's already slowing down a bit. His ball explodes off clay so much, he'll be able to win there even when he's going out in the first week of other majors.
 

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I see your point but would you not want to play a few hard court tourneys before the biggest hard court tournaments of the year (excluding obviously AO & USO) before we get to Cincy & Toronto during the US Open series?
not worth if for nadal.

he cares about majors, and every tournament on hard courts just accelerates his decline.

it's nothing new to him. when he won the US Open in 2010 and 2013, he only played Cincy and Canadian Master as a lead up.

it's a better choice for him, really.
 

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I'd like to see Nadal play with regular strings and normal equipment to see how good he really is compared to other guys. The spin friendly strings are crazy!
 

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Next up is IW. This should be good cause everyone is playing there I think. Djoko will be eager for revenge.
 

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Next up is IW. This should be good cause everyone is playing there I think. Djoko will be eager for revenge.
so will fed, right?

they played the final last year which fed lost in 3 close sets. :)
 

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I will wait for the BNP
 

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Interested to see how Krunic does. If someone could show her how to hit a backhand properly she would be a top 10 player.
 

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Women's 1st round action is underway now on Tennis Channel.

Men's begin tomorrow.

Most of the big names/ranked players if not all get a bye in round 1
 

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Mardy Fish returns tmr against Harrison.

No other note worthy matches on the mens side IMO
 
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